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Former US Senator and NASA Administrator who oversaw NASA's independent UAP study and made notable public comments about the possibility of non-human intelligence.
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Former senior Pentagon intelligence official who helped bring Navy UAP videos to public attention and has advocated for congressional oversight of the issue.
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Former Defense Intelligence Agency official who managed the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program and later co-authored a controversial book on UAP retrieval claims.
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Career intelligence officer who served as the first director of the Department of Defense's UAP Task Force before its reorganization into AARO.
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Former Clinton and Obama White House official who repeatedly and publicly urged declassification of government UFO-related records.
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Physicist and career national-security official who became AARO's director in 2024, continuing its case-review and Senate-briefing work.
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Retired Army colonel and former national-security space official who has publicly supported David Grusch's account of a secret UAP retrieval program.
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Former military intelligence officer who says he led the Pentagon's AATIP program and resigned in 2017 to advocate publicly for UAP disclosure.
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Physicist and former US intelligence official who directed AARO from its creation through 2024, overseeing its initial historical case reviews.
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Department of Defense spokesperson who has handled official public statements on UAP task forces, videos, and disclosure matters for much of the 2020s.